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🧫 The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists, two from the U.S. and one from Japan, for their discoveries in controlling the immune system, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments.
🏳️⚧️ “A win for all transgender people born in Arizona,” a judge blocked the state’s surgery mandate for transgender birth certificate changes.
Environment
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Scientists are using corals from other countries to save Florida’s dying reefs
Scientists at the University of Miami are testing corals from Florida, Honduras, and the Cayman Islands to find the ones that best survive warming ocean temperatures driven by climate change.
With 80% of the world’s reefs seeing dangerous levels of heat over the past two years, efforts to protect these critical ecosystems have shifted to replanting them, similar to replanting a forest of trees. And the effort in Florida is one of the largest in the world.
So scientists are working to breed corals that can tolerate heat better, speeding up the natural evolution process to keep pace with more rapidly warming waters. For the first time in the U.S., their “Flonduran” corals were planted in the wild.
Why is this good news? The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida’s coral reefs, where more than 90% of the living coral off the Keys has died. Not only do these reefs preserve biodiversity and the larger state ecosystem, but they also protect its coastline from extreme weather events, hurricanes, storm surge, and more — rebuilding them is critical to saving these communities and marine ecosystems from collapsing.
An innovative “sponge” park saved a historic neighborhood in Atlanta from flooding.Funded by the Trust for Public Land, the city, and private donors, Rodney Cook Sr. Park cost $40 million to install, but saved the city about as much when Hurricane Helene rolled past and filled the park with nine million gallons of water — keeping nearby homes completely dry.
Researchers at the University of Arizona developed a solar drying tower to combat food waste.The system can dry fruits and vegetables in hours rather than days, has zero carbon footprint, uses natural heat gradients to preserve produce that might otherwise end up in landfills, can process four tons of produce at a time, and produces clean drinking water in the drying process.
Sports
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Ilona Maher gets her own Barbie doll, complete with broad shoulders, to inspire young athletes
Surging wind and solar have given Spain one of the cheapest electricity markets in Europe
Spain has successfully decoupled the influence of fossil fuels on the price of electricity by growing its wind and solar installations, making its wholesale electricity price 32% lower than the European Union average in the first half of the year.
This is despite the country having the third-largest gas power fleet in the EU, which typically drives higher electricity prices. That’s because when lower-cost sources like wind and solar grow enough, they displace gas and coal, leading them to determine prices less often.
That displacement is happening in Spain thanks to strong solar and wind growth. In the first half of 2019, Spain’s power prices reflected the cost of fossil fuels in 75% of hours — it was just 19% in the same time period in 2025.
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